Bestiarium Judaicum : : Unnatural Histories of the Jews /

Bestiarium Judaicum : : Unnatural Histories of the Jews / / Jay Geller.

Given the vast inventory of verbal and visual images of nonhuman animals-pigs, dogs, vermin, rodents, apes disseminated for millennia to debase, dehumanize, and justify the persecution of Jews, Bestiarium Judaicum asks: What is at play when Jewish-identified writers tell animal stories? Focusing on...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Geller, Jay,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2017]
©2018
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • contents
  • abbreviations
  • Introduction. A Field Guide to the Bestiarium Judaicum
  • chapter 1. "O beastly Jews"
  • chapter 2. Name That Varmint
  • chapter 3. (Con)Versions of Cats and Mice and Other Mouse Traps
  • chapter 4. "If you could see her through my eyes . . ."
  • chapter 5. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics I
  • chapter 6. Italian Lizards and Literary Politics II
  • chapter 7. The Raw and the Cooked in the Old/ New World, or Talk to the Animals
  • chapter 8. Dogged by Destiny
  • afterword. "It's clear as the light of day"
  • acknowledgments
  • notes
  • references
  • index

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